Dow Jones & Company

Dow Jones & Company, based in New York City, U.S., is the owner of several print and electronic publications, its flagship being the Wall Street Journal, and it partly owns CNBC media. It also produces various stock market indices.

It owns The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Wall Street Journal Asia, and the financial magazine Barron's as well as offering syndicated news, financial information, and stock market data. Competitors of Dow Jones include Bloomberg L.P., Financial Times, and Reuters.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and Dow Jones & Company said in August 2007 that they signed an agreement for the News Corporation to buy Dow Jones for around US$5.6 billion.

Stock Market Indices
The company is also responsible for several widely used stock market indices, among them:


 * Dow Jones Composite Average
 * Dow Jones Global Titans
 * Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA, "Dow Jones 30," or often simply "the Dow")
 * Dow Jones Transportation Average
 * Dow Jones Utility Average
 * Dow Jones U.S. Large Cap Growth
 * Dow Jones U.S. Large Cap Value
 * Dow Jones U.S. Small Cap Growth
 * Dow Jones U.S. Small Cap Value
 * Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Total Market Index

Ownership
The Bancroft family effectively controlled the company class B shares, each with a voting power of 10 regular shares.

Selected Dow Jones holdings:
 * The Wall Street Journal
 * Barron's
 * Far Eastern Economic Review
 * SmartMoney (with Hearst)
 * Vedomosti
 * Dow Jones Newswires
 * Ottaway Newspapers Inc.
 * In the state of California
 * Sentinel (Santa Cruz)
 * The Record (Stockton)
 * In the state of New York
 * Cooperstown Crier
 * Daily Star (Oneonta)
 * Press-Republican (Plattsburgh)
 * Times Herald Record (Middletown)

Plus 18 more local papers in seven other states.


 * Dow Jones Index
 * Factiva (with Reuters)
 * CNBC (partial)
 * The Wall Street Journal Radio Network

Personnel
Key executives and 2006 pay:
 * Richard F. Zannino, Chief Executive Officer, $1,780,000
 * William B. Plummer, Chief Financial Officer, $403,000
 * L. Gordon Crovitz, Head of New Consumer Publishing Unit, $1,000,000
 * Paul E. Steiger, Head of Online Editions of Journal, $846,000
 * Joseph A. Stern, Secretary and General Counsel, $844,000

Selected members of the Board of Directors:
 * M. Peter McPherson, Chairman of the Board, Dow Jones & Company
 * Christopher Bancroft, Bancroft Operations
 * Eduardo Castro-Wright, President and Chief Executive Officer, Wal-Mart Stores, USA
 * Harvey Golub, Chairman Campbell Soup Company

Contact details
200 Liberty Street New York, NY 10281 Phone: 212-416-2000 Fax: 212-416-4348 Web: http://www.dj.com

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